Business Insurance, the creator of the Coalition Against Insurance
Fraud, recently inducted eight new members into "The Hall of Shame." According to
the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, '"The Hall of Shame annually
dishonors the year's most brazen, vicious or plain klutzy convicted insurance
criminals."'

One chilling incident involved a man named Michael Weaver, a
severely mentally handicapped individual. David Player and Gerald Hardin, his
caregivers, convinced him to cut off his hands for insurance money. Using a trimmer
with a chainsaw blade Player and Hardin cut off Mr. Weaver's hands. Mr. Player,
who had Mr. Weaver's power of attorney, told the insurance company it was an accident. The insurance paid out $671,000, and most of the money went to
Mr. Player. Player received a 14-year sentence in federal penitentiary, and
Hardin was sentenced to three years and five months. Another bizarre incident involved an women luring her ex-husband to her home to indulge in his favorite dessert that she had poisoned with
morphine and muscle relaxants in quantities of over 80 times the normal dose.
She was trying to collect on a $100,000 life insurance policy. Convicted of
murder, insurance fraud, and other crimes she received over 60 years in
prison.